Engineering Newswire 5: The world's fastest electric motorcycle

In this episode of Engineering Newswire, brought to you by PD&D TV:

• A group of dedicated engineering students from San Jose State University is attempting to build a self-balancing electric motorcycle.• German researchers think they may have found a better way to protect astronauts, and future Mars colonists, from cosmic radiation.• Motoczysz has set out to build the world's fastest motorcycle, but they have made other landmarks along the way.• DARPA has released video of its new and improved quadruped Legged Squad Support System, or LS3, which is also known as Big Dog.• A team of Stanford engineers has demonstrated the feasibility of a super-small, implantable cardiac device that isn't powered by batteries, but radio waves.

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In this episode of Engineering Newswire, brought to you by PD&D TV: A group of dedicated engineering students from San Jose State University is attempting to build a self-balancing electric motorcycle. German researchers think they may have found a better way to protect astronauts, and future Mars colonists, from cosmic radiation.